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...Mike Godwin, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based civil liberties group. Mr. Godwin was referring to a recent divorce lawsuit brought by a Mr. John F. Goydan against his wife after discovering she was exchanging steamy e-mail correspondences with a man known on the net as "The Weasel." Mr. Goydan lost his case...
Civil libertarians were outraged. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, complained that the indecency portion of the bill would transform the vast library of the Internet into a children's reading room, where only subjects suitable for kids could be discussed. "It's government censorship," said Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "The First Amendment shouldn't end where the Internet begins...
...legal scholars, is whether the Internet is a print medium (like a newspaper), which enjoys strong protection against government interference, or a broadcast medium (like television), which may be subject to all sorts of government control. Perhaps the most significant import of the Exon bill, according to EFF's Godwin, is that it would place the computer networks under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, which enforces, among other rules, the injunction against using the famous seven dirty words on the radio. In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, respondents were sharply...
...civil libertarians fear the proposed law could turn every online-service provider into an info cop. "Exon's bill would be the end of the Internet as we know it," says Mark Stahlman, president of New Media Associates, a New York City-based media-research firm. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argues that constitutional guarantees apply in the new media just as they apply in the old-no matter how offensive the material. "The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because no one ever tries to ban the other kind," he says...
...effect this week, C.M.U. will no longer distribute dozens of sexually oriented bulletin boards -- even those that are primarily discussion groups. Experts in constitutional law say C.M.U.'s new policy may be ill advised. "The idea that you can't discuss sex in a university is absurd," says Mike Godwin, staff counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Have they given any thought to the copies of Henry Miller in the university library...